| Hannah | Second Senior Session | Decatur IL Senior Photographer |

I just finished up Hannah’s full 60-page album design and I LOVE it! This design pushed me to get creative and stay creative to make each design unique on it’s own yet coordinate with all the others.

One thing that I love that Hannah did from her session is create a feature image for her to take with her to college (in her college gear – see those images and her full first session here), plus we created two wall collages for her to keep here at home. I love this because senior images are a really fun transition between your childhood chapter and your adult chapter so I like that she left some behind for her (and mom) to enjoy at home and took some with her to have a piece of her past there too.

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I posted about the below images a while back on our facebook page. I realized I’ve talked up sunset sessions a lot and had some clients concerned their images would be ‘less-than’ if we didn’t have a sunset session open for them. That is SO not the case! Hannah’s session started 3 HOURS before sunset, but I chose a location I knew had a bit of an early sunset look since it’s very wooded and sort of in a little valley and even hours before sunset we can create looks like this with the right location and lighting. No matter what time of day your session is, it’s always my job to make your images ones you will LOVE so don’t you worry if it’s sunrise, sunset or noon I will do just that!

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| Taylor Family Portraits | Decatur IL |

It’s beautiful family portrait day here on the blog. I cannot tell you how much I LOVE to watch your families grow. I first worked with these guys for Jaycee’s senior portraits and now she’s all grown up with the most adorable little baby of her own that look just like her! Having everyone together for big family sessions like this means we also get to take some time to create images of all the relationships within the family too. Everyone get’s their own little bit of time in the spotlight as well as showcasing the whole gang.

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Your adorable meeter is about to explode… look at that little wave she gave me! #heartmelted!

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And how sweet are these two?!?! <3

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And oooo how I love siblings portraits. I’m an only child so I didn’t have any of this growing up but I swear there seems to be no cooler relationship than that between siblings. They may be the first in line to tease you, steal the last piece of pizza from you or annoy you but they’ll also be the first in line to stand up for you and have your back.

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Want to see some throw backs to these guys over the years?!?! Check out Jaycee’s Senior Session, their 2014 Snow Family SessionFull Family Session.

| BONUS Blog Post | BabyB Turns THREE | Our Own Portraits |

This week we have an extra blog post to show off our little big girl….

In April, our little gal turned THREE! Since I knew we’d have newborn portraits coming up in just two short months and my deal with Ryan is one family session a year (I’ve yet to meet a dad who loves family portrait day!) I opted to let B have 90% of the spotlight all to herself before baby sister came along. And I needed a few headshots too so we did a ‘just the girls’ session and I’m so glad we did. You pretty much can’t squeeze more personality into this little girl and giving her the chance to let that shine on camera is a blast (plus how fun are these images going to be to show her and/or recreate when she’s older!).

People ask me often about photographing my own family and are often shocked to hear that I do not do our own family portraits (heck no)! Even just doing Baby O’s monthly photos is a hot mess. Photographing my own kids (on anything other than my cell phone) has never been fun for me. I prefer to sit back, relax (hahaha) and just be mom on photo day (and all you mommas know that is NOT relaxing). BUT after the fact, waiting… getting to be surprised by the unveiling and seeing my kiddos true personalities shine is beyond fantastic.

Thanks to Natalie for yet another fun session together. Photos by Oh Love Photography.

| Aubrey | Children’s Portrait Photographer | Two Years Old |

This beautiful little girl shares a birthday with my momma so celebrating with her with a milestone session brought a huge smile to my face. Happy birthday to this sweet happy little gal, I know it will be a fantastic year for you!

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If you’ve got a little angel coming up on a big birthday (and let’s be honest, they’re all pretty huge) give me a call and let’s celebrate it together.